Game Reviews

Leah Looks at Lichtspeer!

Leah Looks at Lichtspeer!

Lichtspeer Genre: Action, Adventure, Indie Developer: Lichthund Publisher: Lichthund Release Date: Sep 27, 2016 Current price on Steam: $9.99, for the game only.  The brilliant soundtrack is available with the game in a bundle for $12.73.  Both selections can be...

Collectors and Capers Review

Collectors and Capers Review

Oceans 11 Linus: Smash and grab job, huh? Rusty: Slightly more complicated than that. Linus: Well, yeah. You've bypassed the cameras, slipped past the guards and now you're ready to steal the treasure.  But wait, what's that?  Another thief is muscling in on your...

Dice of Crowns Review

Dice of Crowns Review

Players: 2-6 Play time: 10-20 minutes Type: Dice Game Mechanic: Push your luck, Dice rolling, Take that Designers: Sean Epperson and Brander (Badger) Roullett Publisher: Thing 12 Games Dice of Crowns Review The King is dead, all hail the King. No wait, he’s dead, the...

Review – Trail of Cthulhu: The Repairer of Reputations

Do you want to live out your very own version of The Repairer of Reputations? Here's your chance! This scenario puts your characters at the center of an alternate universe from the original story. In this case, The King in Yellow has indeed warped the world. Your...

UnderFed with UnderDread

UnderFed with UnderDread

UnderDread Released: March 1, 2016 Publisher: Bigzur Games Developer: Bigzur Games MSRP: $11.99, Steam http://store.steampowered.com/app/432240/ System Requirements MINIMUM: OS: Windows XP SP2+, Windows 7,8, Mac OS X Processor: Core with SSE2 Memory: 2 GB RAM...

Devil Tree Station Review

Devil Tree Station Review

It's noon, the scorched air hangs still.  Then a pistol shot rings out and the sound of hoofs beating out a staccato rhythm across the dusty town square.  Hot lead fills the air sending people scrambling for cover.  The wanted gang just robbed the bank and means to...

Review – Rogue Trader: Hostile Acquisitions

Everyone who I've played Rogue Trader with has skirted Imperial rule at best and obviously flown in the face of it at worst. Now, they finally have the ability to take alternate career ranks in just the type of criminal they have always wanted to be. More than that,...

Leah Looks at These

Leah Looks at These

Let’s face it: Sometimes things occur in spurts, and sometimes I feel I have been left with little choice but to share them all at once. It is wonderful when there is a bounty of things that hold my interest. They may not hold yours, but they hold mine. Let me share...

Review – Ashen Stars: Dead Rock Seven

The perfect companion to your Ashen Star Core Rulebook, Dead Rock Seven gives the eager GM four scenarios to run that range from sexy pleasure planets to desolate asteroid mines. In each case, your lasers will need to use ingenuity, skill, and luck to navigate these...

After Days – Survival is Everything! Review

After Days – Survival is Everything! Review

It’s almost February, a time for Love and……Zombies? Yes, Zombies! Walking Dead is coming off it’s mid season hiatus and Michael McCoy and Jason Leary of Dice Made Me Do It! are bringing their zombie themed game, After Days – Survival is Everything!, to Kickstarter....

Review – Ashen Stars

This is another amazing success from Pelgrane Press. The GUMSHOE engine provides the basis for the game, but it's so different from the previous games like Fear Itself or Trail of Cthulhu. The game is set in a universe where a powerful alien race was set to destroy...

Review – Rogue Trader Koronus Bestiary

I love Rogue Trader, but don't have the time to generate my own Xenos nor do I want to hand-wave too much in order to preserve balance. This book provides me with all the nasties and big bads I need to punish, er, challenge my players. It's 146 pages of pure sadistic...

Mahola Review

Mahola Review

Created by veteran game designer Scott Hansen, Mahola is beautiful card game themed around the dances of Native American culture.  Designed for 3-4 players the goal is to create the highest scoring dance each round.  The first player to win three rounds wins the game!...

MFGCast Top 8 Games of 2015

MFGCast Top 8 Games of 2015

This year was a great year for gaming, and we played some great games! We give you our Top 8 games of 2015, give out our MF'N Awards, and thank all of our friends for making this year a wonderful year for the MFGCast! If we missed thanking any of you that have helped...

Pick the Lock Review

Pick the Lock Review

We were lucky enough to receive a review copy of Pick the Lock by Portal Dragon.  This will be their second Kickstarter and launches on Saturday Nov. 7th. here's the link Each player takes on the role of a master thief and during their turn tries to steal a treasure...

Greatest Craps Guru in the World

Friend of the podcast David Medansky, founder of Kazam Games, has a new book coming out and we think you should check it out.  Here his release: Mark Jackson and I have co-authored a novel titled Greatest Craps Guru in the World.  We need your help to make it an...

HexAgony Review

HexAgony Review

The good folks over at New Entertainment were running a contest a little while back, giving away a copy of their game HexAgony to one lucky winner.  As it turns out that winner was me.  HexAgony is an abstract tile placement game for 2-3 people and was the winner of...

Review: Infected!

Infected is a new tabletop RPG set some five years after a horrific plague has wiped out the majority of human civilization and created ravenous predators that stalk the remaining survivors who are no longer at the top of the food chain. Notice I didn’t use the word...

Posse – Wild West Justice Review

Posse – Wild West Justice Review

Posse Wild West Justice is a face pace card and dice game for 2 to 4 players.  Created by veteran game designer Scott Hansen, the object of the game is to recruit posse members to help bring in the lowdown, no good scallywags harassing your town.  The player with the...

Shenanigans Card Game Review

Shenanigans Card Game Review

Shenanigans is a new card game developed and produced by Kazam games here in sunny Arizona.  I had the pleasure of receiving a playtest copy of the game for review. For anyone who's ever played the card game Golf, Shenanigans will be quite familiar.  David Medansky at...

Castellan Review

Castellan Review

After seeing a few people post about it on Twitter I decided I'd check out Castellan by Steve Jackson games. I took a trip up to the "local" game store with my daughter and wandered around for a while as I always do, perusing all the cool stuff.  After fighting the...